Pork industry telling porkies about sow stalls!

Plea to ban 'disgusting' sow stalls
Calls to ban sow stalls in piggeries are mounting as animal rights campaigners including former pork industry frontman Mike King criticise the "cruel" practice. The Government vowed yesterday to investigate a farm featured in disturbing footage broadcast by TVNZ's Sunday programme. It showed animal welfare organisation Open Rescue and comedian Mike King exposing the "disgusting" practice during a break-in at a North Island intensive pig farm. They found distressed sows biting and chewing the bars and frothing at the mouth. One sow lay dead. King was the Pork Board's advertising frontman for seven years before being dropped in December. He said he was ashamed he had not investigated the industry before taking on the role and that he would never forget the sound of screaming pigs. Yesterday fallout from the broadcast continued as protests were staged and politicians, including Prime Minister John Key who found the footage "very, very disturbing", waded into the debate.

Well done Mike King and the good people at SAFE, but the Pork industry are lying through their teeth when they say that had no idea that pigs were suffering in these sow stalls because the Pork industry knows bloody well that intensive pig farming like this exists and they are freaking out as the truth is revealed. It is disgusting that animals are made to suffer like this so we can get cheap bacon, it is these environments using intensive methods like this that are breeding grounds for the swine flu we saw flare up recently.

The Pork industry is as much a lying swine of an industry as the caged egg industry and pigs will fly before they start treating their animals well, the solution is simple boycott any pork that isn’t organic and free range.